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Close Edition. Thursday, October 1, 2026

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$45.46
-0.24%

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European bond stress drives XEQT lower as U.S. and emerging markets hold their ground

XEQT fell 0.24% on Thursday, a decline well below the recent 20-day average absolute move of 0.54%. International developed markets were the defining drag, with XEF.TO dropping 0.96% and contributing roughly -0.23 percentage points to the fund, accounting for the majority of the day's loss. Rising bond yields and oil prices reignited inflation concerns across Europe, sending the UK, France, and Spain sharply lower. The U.S. sleeve provided a partial offset, gaining 0.13% on the strength of technology and industrials, while emerging markets edged up 0.16%, lifted by South Korean chip shares.

How large is today's move?

Typical day · Today's -0.24% move is 0.4× the 20-day average move.

This scale measures size, not what to do. Larger moves are a normal part of holding a global all-equity fund.

The Regions

  • Canada

    24.89% of XEQT

    • XIC.TO
    -0.20% -0.05 pts from XEQT

    Canada's sleeve fell 0.20%, contributing about -0.05 percentage points to XEQT. Materials dropped 1.27% and financials declined 0.33%, together weighing on the index. Offsetting those losses, energy surged 1.39% on the back of WTI crude's 2.85% advance to $93, while information technology added 1.99%, limiting the sleeve's overall damage.

    Canada market region icon

  • United States

    45.77% of XEQT

    • XTOT.TO
    • ITOT
    +0.13% +0.06 pts to XEQT

    The U.S. sleeve gained 0.13%, adding approximately +0.06 percentage points to XEQT. Technology rose 1.05% and industrials climbed 0.99% among the sectors tracked, more than offsetting declines in health care and communication services. The net result made the U.S. sleeve the largest positive contributor to the fund on the day.

    United States market region icon

  • Intl Developed

    24.26% of XEQT

    • XEF.TO
    -0.96% -0.23 pts from XEQT

    XEF.TO fell 0.96%, the session's heaviest sleeve loss and the source of about two-thirds of XEQT's total decline. Surging bond yields and oil above $100 a barrel revived inflation concerns across the continent, with France dropping 2.09%, Spain falling 2.26%, and the UK declining 1.38% among the markets tracked. The EUR/CAD cross fell 0.83%, amplifying the euro-area weakness for Canadian-dollar investors, while UK 30-year gilt yields hit 6% according to Bloomberg's live coverage.

    Intl Developed market region icon

  • Emerging Mrkts

    4.89% of XEQT

    • XEC.TO
    +0.16% +0.01 pts to XEQT

    XEC.TO edged up 0.16%, a small but positive contribution. South Korean equities rose 1.82% among the markets tracked, snapping a three-session losing streak on institutional buying of major chip shares, and that gain was large enough to offset declines in India, South Africa, and Taiwan within the covered exposures.

    Emerging Markets market region icon

Colored bars represent biggest contributors to XEQT's move today (threshold = ±0.1 percentage points). Returns are daily ETF price moves for tracked regional or sector categories and may differ slightly from raw index movements.

The Hold Line

European bond markets drove the story Thursday, pulling international developed markets down nearly 1% while North American equities held largely steady. The split outcome illustrates how concentrated today's pressure was: two of four sleeves actually finished in positive territory, limiting XEQT's decline to less than half the recent daily average. This was not a broad-based retreat, and the fund's geographic distribution absorbed the European stress without compounding it elsewhere.

Signals

  • 01

    Crude oil splits sleeve outcomes

    WTI crude rose 2.85% to $93 on Thursday, a move that simultaneously lifted Canadian energy stocks 1.39% and contributed to the bond yield surge that pressured European equities. For XEQT holders, crude at this level creates an internal tension: it benefits the Canadian sleeve's energy-heavy composition while acting as a headwind for the internationally diversified portion of the fund.

  • 02

    European bond yields spike to decade highs

    UK 30-year gilt yields reached 6% as a global bond market selloff reignited inflation concerns, driving the FTSE 100 to a three-month low and pulling Europe's major markets down 1% to more than 2% on the day. The 10-year U.S. Treasury yield, a benchmark for global borrowing costs, fell 1.06% on the session, a divergence that suggests bond stress remained concentrated in Europe rather than spreading uniformly across developed markets.

  • 03

    South Korea diverges sharply within EM

    South Korea's equity market rose 1.82% among the markets tracked, snapping a three-day losing streak on chip-sector buying, while India fell 0.69% and Taiwan slipped 0.11%, producing a sharp divergence within the emerging markets sleeve. The breadth gap means XEC.TO's slim 0.16% gain masked meaningfully different outcomes across its largest country exposures.

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